Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Company limousines roll through the British countryside carrying executives' children from their boarding schools to holidays at home. France's nationalized coal companies provide their engineers with rent-free homes. Swedish business men hunt elk in company-owned forests. Officials of Rio de Janeiro's Mesbla department store enjoy free vacations at their company's summer resort. All these-and many more-are the fringe benefits that are taken for granted by executives abroad, and account for the fact that they can often live high on salaries that usually run much lower than those...
...there is now an extra tax on company-owned cars, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for a top executive to prove that, merely for business entertaining, he really needs a company-paid mansion staffed with cook, butler, chauffeur and gardener. He might get away with writing off a hunt as a business expense, and at least a few executives still enjoy a time-honored French fringe benefit: charging off to company advertising expenses the rent and bills of their mistresses...
...resolution. I believe, however, that what is called for in the present circumstances is a long and thoughtful discussion of the problems raised by what has been going on here and elsewhere. Moreover, I suggested that the experience of many faculty who signed the academic freedom statement after the Hunt Hall incident indicated that any statement made should be one that would not easily be appropriated for purposes other than those for which it was intended. Unhappily, virtually everything is now contextual, and that obliges people to be very precise in what they mean and in what they...
...Myopia Hunt Club aided the club when it began practicing this fall, providing ponies and a playing field. When the club moved to winter quarters in a small arena in North Andover, it had to scrounge for itself...
Coached by Mike Andrews of the Myopia Hunt Club, the team pulled itself together. As riding and hitting skill improved, cries of "Which goal are we hitting for?" and "Who's on my team?" became fewer, and the melees became games...